Murder
Murder (mûr"dẽr) , noun
[Old English morder, morther, Anglo-Saxon moreor, from more murder; akin to Dutch moord, Old Saxon more, German, Danish, & Swedish mord, Icelandic more, Gothic maúrþr, OSlav. mrēti to die, Lithuanian mirti, Welsh marw dead, Latin mors, mortis, death, mori, moriri, to die, Greek broto`s (for mroto`s) mortal, 'a`mbrotos immortal, Sanskrit mr to die, mrta death. r105. Compare Amaranth, Ambrosia, Mortal.]
The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.
Mordre will out.
The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt of murder, as the offering them to idols had the guilt of idolatry.
Slaughter grows murder when it goes too far.
Murder in the second degree, in most jurisdictions, is a malicious homicide committed without a specific intention to take life.
Murder (mûr"dẽrd) , transitive verb
[Old English mortheren, murtheren, Anglo-Saxon myrerian; akin to Old High German murdiren, Gothic maúrþrjan. See Murder, n.]
1.
To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.
2.
To destroy; to put an end to.
[Canst thou] murder thy breath in middle of a word?
3.
To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.